People Ex Rel. Townsend v. Porter
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, made March 31, 1882, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying an application of the relators, as commissioners of police in the Miagara police district, for a peremptory mandamus ^ directing the defendants, the president and trustees of the village of Miagara Falls, to deliver over to the relators the lock-ups, station-houses and places of detention for persons arrested in…
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, made March 31, 1882, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying an application of the relators, as commissioners of police in the Miagara police district, for a peremptory mandamus ^ directing the defendants, the president and trustees of the village of Miagara Falls, to deliver over to the relators the lock-ups, station-houses and places of detention for persons arrested in said village. (Reported below, 26 Hun, 622.) The police district created by the act chapter 415, Laws of 1881, entitled “…
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Ch. J.
It is quite plain that the appointment of a police justice, and the creation of a police court for the police district created by chapter 415, of the Laws of 1881, was an essential part of the scheme of legislation thereby enacted. The jurisdiction conferred upon the police justice was not concurrent, but was exclusive. The ordinary jurisdiction of justices of the peace and of Courts of Special Sessions, in criminal cases within the territory comprising the police district, was taken away and vested in the new officer., The act created new offenses, of which the police justice…
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